Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Open Source Databases (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG3 days ago
Košice, SlovakiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Administer PostgreSQL databases across development, testing, and production environments.
- Perform database configuration, patching, upgrades, backups, and recovery activities.
- Monitor database health, availability, performance, capacity, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot database issues and support incident resolution, root cause analysis, and problem management.
- Support database security, access management, auditing, and compliance-related tasks.
- Support high availability and disaster recovery solutions for PostgreSQL platforms.
- Create and maintain scripts, automation, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across AWS and Google Cloud environments.
- Collaborate with database, platform, and application teams on reliable and scalable services.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of recent experience administering PostgreSQL databases, cloud database services, or infrastructure platforms in production environments.
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and database operations.
- Experience writing and troubleshooting SQL queries.
- Experience with managed database services in AWS and/or Google Cloud.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, security, high availability, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python, plus basic Linux/Unix administration knowledge.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, automation tools, DevOps practices, and CI/CD concepts.
- Preferred experience with AWS RDS for PostgreSQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or cloud migration initiatives.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, problem-solving, adaptability, and continuous-improvement skills.
Benefits
- International community of colleagues and opportunities to participate in interest groups and projects.
- Health-care support, including contributions toward medical examinations, a helpline, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Work-life benefits including sabbatical and paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contributions, four extra holiday days per year, third-pillar contributions, and a MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful IT referrals.
- Full-time position with a quoted minimum salary of EUR 2,700 gross per month, with actual compensation dependent on qualifications and expectations.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability